“ Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ There's nothing a professor likes better than imposing his opinion on as large a number of people as possible. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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“ I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. ”
- Corey Pavin- Copy
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“ But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to someone at some time. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa — slightly off balance. ”
- Prince of Wales Charles- Copy
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“ The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Leaders can be moral — and they should be moral — without imposing their morality on others. ”
- Geraldine Ferraro- Copy
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“ Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. ”
- Vladimir Zworykin- Copy
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“ Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me… so he said I should try comedy… and I've been hooked ever since. ”
- Beatrice Arthur- Copy
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“ The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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